Killing the Angel: Short Stories (S. Quanan (崑南))

Killing the Angel is the English debut by Hong Kong Chinese writer S. Quanan (崑南). In the short story collection, tropes of the Freudian uncanny, Oedipus complex, and the death drive are extensively utilized and reinvented to illustrate Hong Kong’s postcolonial identity crisis.
 
"We are standing at the crossroads between capitalism and communism. We want to see but we are blind. We want to fly but we were born without wings. We want to think in new dimensions inwardly but time in history is bound for absolute level of limitation. On the road once again we could not help ourselves with certainty of paces but instead we are on the course of continuous waiting or draining ourselves so as to chase the lines leading to nowhere. " S. Quanan wrote in the foreword of his new book Killing the Angel.
 
 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
S. Quanan (崑南) was born in 1935 to a father who was a master
of Geomancy from Enping, a county-level city in Guangdong
province. His mother was illiterate who could not even know
how to write her own name. Working up in the western territory
of Hong Kong, the author has been to see the historical events
including the Japanese Invasion in 1941, the colonial rule under
Britain and the present terrible years after the handover ceremony
since becoming a special administrative region of China in 1997.
A poet, novelist, and also an editor of several Chinese dailies, he
has been the publisher of two weeklies for youth in the 1970s. Killing
the Angel is his inaugural collection in English. He has gained
the first prize in 1963 English Poetry organized by Hong Kong
Standard and other two esteemed Chinese newspapers. C Major
in Poetry has earned him the First prize of the Ninth Hong Kong
Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature in 2005. He is the
co-founder of a local website for Hong Kong literature: http://
hklit.com. He extends the previous periods of years in serious
study of western astrology and in fact, he has put out a book
about mundane predictions in 2012.